Detectives have been back out to Carter's Plant City home just within the past 24 hours and are using words like 'excited' and 'significant' when talking about the evidence they collected there.

Part of Kelly Moriarty's leg was found in Pinellas County. Her car was found abandoned in Manatee.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, taking the lead in the case, hadn't uncovered any physical evidence in its jurisdiction yet, but now that may change.

At the home on McLin Drive in Plant City, neighbors say the property was swarming with deputies and crime scene investigators.

Viola Melton a neighbor, says "It was just chaos."

Neighbors like Melton know this is the same house where Carter was last seen alive, and that she and Moriarty both disappeared the week before Christmas.

Neither woman has been heard from since. Both are presumed dead.

Melton says this was the most police activity she'd seen here since the women were first reported missing, and could only venture a guess as to why detectives were back out here again in force.

"I don't know... unless someone's under suspicion," she said.

Although Moriarty's severed leg washed ashore behind a home in St. Petersburg just weeks after the women disappeared, and her car was found abandoned in rural Manatee County, it was a Hillsborough Sheriff's detective that made the DNA connection between the leg and the rest of case.

"They're very cooperative." said Det. Larry McKinnon, who says Cater's daughter and son-in-law, who still live at the home, gave them verbal consent to re-enter the house.

This time, says McKinnon, detectives removed several bags of possible evidence, including some of Carter's personal belongings, articles of clothing, and more he would not discuss.

But McKinnon says it could be linked to other scenes related to the crime.

"You know, when a detective goes in the first time, he may not understand what a certain piece of clothing or an article may have in relationship to the case until they find some evidence, maybe perhaps somewhere else, and then that gives him a clue," said McKinnon, explaining the department's desire to re-enter the home and collect new possible evidence.